[LPL Board of Directors] Vote For Removal

[Reed Ebarb]

To all State Central Committee members,

        The second quarter regular meeting of the Libertarian Party of
Louisiana State Central Committee will be held at Lakeview Harbor, 911
Harrison Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana at Noon on Saturday April 13th,
2013.
Attendance by all Officers and Parish Representatives is required per the
Party By-laws. A working agenda is posted online on the Party website and a
final agenda will be issued seven days in advance of the meeting.  On this
final agenda you will see a section for an executive session where the
Committee will consider a disciplinary motion to remove Mr. Scott A.
Lewis, III from his office as Vice-Chairman of the Party for the following
charges and specifications:

        Charge 1. Dereliction of Duty of the Office of Vice-chairman
        Specification 1. Not being present for the convention at which he
was elected, and at which he was to serve as an officer, being already duly
elected by the previous convention.
        Specification 2. Not being present for the first State Central
Committee meeting, held in Alexandria, Louisiana, such attendance being
required of his office by the By-laws, his absence preventing a quorum,
causing members and officers to travel at great expense to themselves
without purpose.
        Specification 3. Not being present for a meeting of the Strategic
Planning Committee which he chairs, after calling the meeting, and inviting
members from other parts of the State to attend, causing them to travel at
great expense to themselves, and instead, attempting to chair a physical
meeting by telephone in violation of Robert's Rules of Order.
        Specification 4. Failing to make any attempt to establish Parish
Executive Committees for unorganized parishes as required of his office
under the By-laws, leaving the work instead to be done at great personal
effort and expense to the Executive Director, such work being outside the
Director's contract, and causing considerable difficulties in negotiating
agreeable payment terms for such contract.
        Specification 5. In the absence of established Parish Executive
Committees, failing to take care that the duties assigned to these
committees are carried out in their respective parishes, either by his own
actions, or by the appointment of a parish director, organizer, or other
member as the By-laws require.

        Charge 2. Conduct Unbecoming an Officer of the Libertarian Party of
Louisiana.
        Specification 1. Failing to turn in his Affidavit of Acceptance form
for filing as a Presidential Elector.
        Specification 2. Failing to turn in his Affidavit of Acceptance
form, corrected version.
        Specification 3. Failing to communicate why said form was not turned
in the first time in a timely manner.
        Specification 4. Failing to communicate why said form was not turned
in at all the second time.
        Specification 5. Failing to display any concern for his tardiness in
turning in these critical forms.
        Specification 6. Failing to display any interest in securing the
forms before the legal deadline.
        Specification 7. Lack of concern for known deadlines affecting
ballot access for the Libertarian Presidential and Vice-Presidential
candidates.
        Specification 8. Causing the chair to go to great personal effort
and expense to remedy the officer's failure to file required legal paperwork
in a timely manner.
        Specification 9. Volunteering to be a co-director of a Presidential
campaign for Louisiana, and subsequently failing to accomplish any task,
attend any function, offer any assistance with any planning or coordination
of events, and essentially holding the position in name only.
        Specification 10. Making false and baseless accusations of racism
against a fellow state Central Committee member.
        Specification 11. Making an announcement for elective office in a
public forum without advising the State Central Committee in advance,
thereby raising questions among the general membership and the voting public
with respect to the Libertarian Party's implied endorsement of his
candidacy, and drawing their leadership into question accordingly.
        Specification 12. Failing to form an exploratory committee in
advance of this public announcement, making the announcement without any
established campaign committee, platform, or ready biography for prospective
voters and media.
        Specification 13. Failing to provide any such platform or
biographical statement upon the request of prospective voters, Officers and
other party members.
        Specification 14. Filing for elective office in 2011 and failing to
duly answer media inquiries, creating a poor impression on voters and media
of the Libertarian Party, its candidates, and its leadership.

        Charge 3. Unethical Conduct
        Specification 1. Attempting to get reimbursed for the notarizing of
an Affidavit of Acceptance form in 2008, such cost, incidental to being a
candidate for elective office, being only legally payable by the candidate
or a candidate's committee, and which cannot be paid by the Party.
        Specification 2. Attending a 2009 Libertarian State Leadership
Alliance conference, in the Chairman's proxy, at Party expense, for the
purpose of learning more about the new CiviCRM online database system, but
instead, using the opportunity to pitch a dubious fundraising scheme to
other state chairs in concert with a personal business partner who made the
trip, also at Party expense.
        Specification 3. Soliciting the LPL to enter into an expensive and
poorly worded contract to raise funds for the Party through a 3rd party via
the selling of medical information devices, this being the same scheme
pitched at the aforementioned conference, and one in which he has personal
connections to the 3rd party which would profit from the contract.
        Specification 4. Attempting to get reimbursed for travel expenses as
a condition of fulfilling duties of his office. (traveling to a and from
State Central Committee meetings)
        Specification 5. Seeking reimbursement for travel and lodging to
attend the NAACP 2012 convention as a “liaison” to that organization and
representative of the Party.
        Specification 6. Soliciting the Party and a Congressional candidate
to use his personal business services at expense to the Party and the
Candidate.
        Specification 7. Using a Strategic Planning Committee meeting to
solicit the party again to use these same services.
        Specification 8. Using a Strategic Planning Committee meeting to
solicit volunteers and support from party activists and officers for his
campaign for elective office, rather than using the meeting to plan strategy
for the Party.
        Specification 9. Attempting to involve the Party in an electronic
communications scheme which would expose its contact list to his personal
business interests.
        Specification 10. Has on numerous occasions, solicited interest in
holding media events, concerts, festivals et cetera, which would not in any
way be publicly linked to the Party, but which would be partly or entirely
funded by the Party, in exchange for a share of the proceeds of such events,
if any.  In all of these events, personal friends and himself, were to also
profit.
        Specification 11. Attempting to divert discussion at a State Central
Committee meeting concerning online donation logistics towards using his
personal contacts or himself as “bundlers” for Party funds.
        Specification 12. Attempting to attend a private fundraiser for a
Presidential Campaign without making a required donation and while inviting
a guest who also would not make a required donation, thus each of them
partaking of access to the candidate and party activists and of food and
drink provided, without contribution.

        This notice is given by order of the By-laws of the Libertarian
Party of Louisiana, Article 15 § 2.

        The session proceedings will be held strictly according to Robert's
Rules of Order, Newly Revised, in particular, §61 Disciplinary Procedures,
for the protection of the Party and the fairness of the accused.

        A committee to be appointed by the Chairman, shall investigate these
charges and specifications, and present these charges along with any
witnesses or evidence to the Committee for its consideration.

        A full briefing on the exact flow of the proceedings, and the rights
and responsibilities of all involved, shall be issued along with the final
agenda.

        Per §61 of Robert's Rules of Order, Mr. Lewis' membership privileges
(excepting those pertaining to these judicial proceedings), and thus his
status as an officer of the Party, are suspended until the conclusion of the
trial.



Reed Ebarb, Secretary